A Tribute to Justice Thurgood Marshall

On Oct. 1, 1991, Justice Thurgood Marshall retired as a justice of the United States Supreme Court, thereby ending one of the most distinguished legal careers in American history.

During the span of more than half a century, Marshall served as the Chief Counsel of the NAACP which plotted the successful litigation strategy, and successfully argued in the Supreme Court in cases attacking Jim Crow laws culminating in Brown v. Board of Education; and he was the first African-American to serve as Solicitor General and as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court.

Saint Louis University School of Law will pay tribute to Marshall on the 20th anniversary of his Supreme Court retirement from noon-1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, in room 4 in Morrissey Hall.